On this day in the town of Tombstone in Arizona, one of the most famous confrontations in the history of ...

On this day in the town of Tombstone in Arizona, one of the most famous confrontations in the history of the Wild West took place. Two gangs that fought for supremacy in Tombstone clashed. One was mad ...

On this day in 1999, the House of Lords of the British Parliament voted in a new law according to which h ...

On this day in 1999, the House of Lords of the British Parliament voted in a new law according to which hereditary lords lost their right to have a seat in the Parliament by default. Namely, until 199 ...

Japanese prince Itō Hirobumi – the first Prime Minister in the history of Japan – was killed on this day. ...

Japanese prince Itō Hirobumi – the first Prime Minister in the history of Japan – was killed on this day. The office of Prime Minister was introduced in Japan only in 1885, during the time of Emperor ...

On this day in 1689, a catastrophic fire broke out in Skopje, destroying a large part of the city within ...

On this day in 1689, a catastrophic fire broke out in Skopje, destroying a large part of the city within only a few days. The fire was allegedly started by the Austrian invaders, who had managed to pe ...

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is widely known as one of the (if not the) most capable among Hitler's milita ...

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is widely known as one of the (if not the) most capable among Hitler's military commanders in World War II. Fewer people know that he became a hero back in World War I (the ...